Dear Comrade Varga!

I am ill. Completely unable to undertake any work whatsoever.

If you compile a collection (of quotations from my works or from parts of them), I of course have nothing against this, but you must name yourself as responsible for the selection.

My request:

1) cite my works from the spring of 1918 more fully—those against the "Left," on "state capitalism" and on the difficulties of administration as a specific task;

* See the present volume, document 309. Ed.

** See Works, 5th ed., vol. 44, pp. 387, 390-391. Ed.

2) the pamphlet against the "Infantile Disorder" (general rules of tactics and strategy) (cite more fully)*;

NB 3) never cite my speeches (the text of them is always poor, always transmitted inaccurately); cite only my written works.

With best regards, yours Lenin

P. S. I cannot promise an afterword either. You will name yourself responsible for the selection of quotations 334.

in German in 1923

in "Jahrbuch für Wirtschaft, Politik

und Arbeiterbewegung 1922/23".

Hamburg

Printed in full in 1945

Translated from the German

Written March 8, 1922

First printed incompletely

in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript